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and i need to buy some CDs, some essentials. tell me what to buy, essentials only!

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I have no idea what you have, so I'm just gonna list a whole bunch I consider essential.

Led Zeppelin I
Led Zeppelin III
Led Zeppelin IV
Physical Graffiti - Led Zeppelin
Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
The Wall - Pink Floyd
Grace - Jeff Buckley
Sketches (For My Sweetheart, The Drunk) - Jeff Buckley
Paranoid - Black Sabbath
In The Aeroplane Over The Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel
The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
The Bends - Radiohead
OK Computer - Radiohead
Kid A - Radiohead
Amnesiac - Radiohead
Hail To The Thief - Radiohead
Siamese Dream - The Smashing Pumpkins
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness - The Smashing Pumpkins
Adore - The Smashing Pumpkins
MACHINA/The Machines of God - The Smashing Pumpkins
Turn On The Bright Lights - Interpol
De-Loused In The Comatorium - The Mars Volta
Relationship of Command - At The Drive-In
Incesticide - Nirvana
In Utero - Nirvana
Dirt - Alice In Chains
Alice In Chains - Alice In Chains
Superunknown - Soundgarden
Aenima - Tool
Lateralus - Tool
Mer De Noms - A Perfect Circle
Queens of the Stone Age - Queens of the Stone Age
R (Restricted) - Queens of the Stone Age
Songs For The Deaf - Queens of the Stone Age
The Battle of Los Angeles - Rage Against The Machine
Pretty Hate Machine - Nine Inch Nails (Out of print, though)
The Downward Spiral - Nine Inch Nails
The Fragile - Nine Inch Nails
Metallica (The Black Album) - Metallica

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The Beatles - Rubber Soul
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Cat Stevens - tea and the tillerman
Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

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Nick Drake - Pink Moon

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Johnny Cash:
American Recordings
Unchained
American III: Solitary Man
American IV: The Man Comes Around

Bob Dylan:
The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
Bringing it all back home
Blonde on Blonde
Nashville Skyline

The Doors:
The Doors
L.A. Woman

Mark Lanegan:
I'll take care of you
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I'll try to make a short list, as you only want "essentials."

Essential rock album from britain:
Radiohead - OK Computer

Essential prog metal album, if you like prog metal:
Dream Theater - Scenes From A Memory

Essential classic rock album:
Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy

Essential southern rock album:
The Black Crowes - Shake Your Money Maker

Essential completely instrumental album:
Liquid Tension Experiment

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LoathedVermin72 wrote:
I have no idea what you have, so I'm just gonna list a whole bunch I consider essential.

Led Zeppelin I
Led Zeppelin III
Led Zeppelin IV
Physical Graffiti - Led Zeppelin
Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
The Wall - Pink Floyd
Grace - Jeff Buckley
Sketches (For My Sweetheart, The Drunk) - Jeff Buckley
Paranoid - Black Sabbath
In The Aeroplane Over The Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel
The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
The Bends - Radiohead
OK Computer - Radiohead
Kid A - Radiohead
Amnesiac - Radiohead
Hail To The Thief - Radiohead
Siamese Dream - The Smashing Pumpkins
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness - The Smashing Pumpkins
Adore - The Smashing Pumpkins
MACHINA/The Machines of God - The Smashing Pumpkins
Turn On The Bright Lights - Interpol
De-Loused In The Comatorium - The Mars Volta
Relationship of Command - At The Drive-In
Incesticide - Nirvana
In Utero - Nirvana
Dirt - Alice In Chains
Alice In Chains - Alice In Chains
Superunknown - Soundgarden
Aenima - Tool
Lateralus - Tool
Mer De Noms - A Perfect Circle
Queens of the Stone Age - Queens of the Stone Age
R (Restricted) - Queens of the Stone Age
Songs For The Deaf - Queens of the Stone Age
The Battle of Los Angeles - Rage Against The Machine
Pretty Hate Machine - Nine Inch Nails (Out of print, though)
The Downward Spiral - Nine Inch Nails
The Fragile - Nine Inch Nails
Metallica (The Black Album) - Metallica


the awesomeness of that list makes baby jesus weep


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I agree with:

Bob Dylan-The Freewheelin Bob Dylan
Radiohead- OK Computer
All the Johnny Cash recordings

As for me, get:

Neutral Milk Hotel-In THe Aeroplane Over the Sea
Beck-Sea Change
Pavement-Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain-L.A.'s Desert Origins (Re-issue)
Sonic Youth-Daydream Nation
DJ Shadow-Endtroducing
Fugazi-13 Songs
Pixies-Surfer Rosa
Television-Marquee Moon
Any Ween album

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Four essential double albums:

The White Album by the Beatles
Physical Grafitti by Led Zeppelin
Mellon Collie & the Infinite Sadness by Smashing Pumpkins
The Fragile by Nine Inch Nails

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zeb wrote:
Two essential double albums:

The White Album by the Beatles
Physical Grafitti by Led Zeppelin

j.


There ya go. :wink:

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OrpheusDescending wrote:
zeb wrote:
Two essential double albums:

The White Album by the Beatles
Physical Grafitti by Led Zeppelin

There ya go. :wink:


Agreed, but in time the latter two may find a place alongside works by the Beatles and the Zep.

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OrpheusDescending wrote:
Neutral Milk Hotel-In THe Aeroplane Over the Sea

You won't find that at Best Buy.

OrpheusDescending wrote:
Sonic Youth-Daydream Nation


Damn right. Top 5 albums ever, for me at least.

Led Zeppelin-IV
Led Zeppelin-Physical Grafitti
Pink Floyd-DSOTM
Pink Floyd-Wish You Were Here
Sonic Youth-Daydream nation
Wilco-Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Interpol-Turn On the Bright Lights
The Beatles-The White Album
The Beatles-Abbey Road
Cat Stevens-Tea For The Tillerman
Radiohead-Ok Computer
Radiohead-Hail To The Thief
Nick Drake-Pink Moon
Pearl Jam-Vitalogy (I assume you have this, though)
U2-Joshua Tree
The Who-Who's Next (See if you can find the 9 track, original version. Thats where the album should end. The extras are shit, boring, and bring it down)

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Wilco-Summerteeth (best to start with this one)

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OrpheusDescending wrote:
Wilco-Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (You shouldnt be without it)

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AC/DC -- Back in Black
Highway to Hell
High Voltage
Aerosmith -- Aerosmith
Get Your Wings
Toys in the Attic
Rocks
The Band -- Music From Big Pink
The Band
Hendrix -- all three studio albums+First Rays...
Rolling Stones -- Beggar's Banquet
Let It Bleed
Sticky Fingers
Exile...
SG -- Badmotorfinger
Down on the Upside
STP -- Purple
The Who -- Tommy
Live at Leeds
Who's Next


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Johnny Cash:
American Recordings
Unchained
American III: Solitary Man
American IV: The Man Comes Around

Bob Dylan:
The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
Bringing it all back home
Blonde on Blonde
Nashville Skyline

The Doors:
The Doors
L.A. Woman

Mark Lanegan:
Bubblegum


Add Live at San Quentin and Live at Folsom Prison for Johnny. Also add Time Out Of Mind and Highway 61 Revisited for Dylan.

Cream:
Fresh Cream
Disraeli Gears
Wheels of Fire

Derek & The Dominos:
Layla, and other assorted Love Songs

Eric Clapton:
461 Ocean Boulevard
Slowhand
Journeyman

Bruce Springsteen:
Nebraska
Darkness On The Edge Of Town
Born To Run
The River

John Hiatt:
Bring The Family
Crossing Muddy Waters
Slow Turning

John Mayall:
Bluesbreakers w/ Eric Clapton

The Who:
Live at Leeds
Quadrophenia
Tommy
Who By Numbers

Pete Townshend:
All The Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes
White City: A Novel

Neutral Milk Hotel:
In The Aeroplane Over The Sea

The White Stripes:
The White Stripes
De Stijl

Jesse Malin:
The Fine Art of Self-Destruction

The Clash:
The Clash
London Calling

Neil Young:
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
Ragged Glory
Harvest
Rust Never Sleeps

Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros:
Streetcore
Global A Go-Go

Black Sabbath:
Black Sabbath
Paranoid

Smashing Pumpkins:
Siamese Dream
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

Stevie Ray Vaughan:
Texas Flood

REM:
Green
Automatic For The People

Creedence Clearwater Revival:
Green River
Cosmo's Factory
Willie and the Poor Boys

Janis Joplin:
Pearl

Nirvana:
Unplugged

Sonic Youth:
Daydream Nation

The Beatles:
The White Album
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Radiohead:
OK Computer

Led Zeppelin:
Physical Grafitti

Soundgarden:
Superunknown

Stevie Wonder:
Innervisions
Songs In The Key Of Life

Muddy Waters:
At Newport, 1960

Metallica:
Master of Puppets

Megadeth:
Rust In Peace

The Band:
Music From Big Pink
The Band

Patti Smith:
Horses
Easter

Butterfield Blues Band:
East-West

Howlin Wolf:
The London Sessions
His Best

The Stooges:
Raw Power

MC5:
Kick Out The Jams

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LoathedVermin72 wrote:
I have no idea what you have, so I'm just gonna list a whole bunch I consider essential.

Led Zeppelin I
Led Zeppelin III
Led Zeppelin IV
Physical Graffiti - Led Zeppelin
Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
The Wall - Pink Floyd
Grace - Jeff Buckley
Sketches (For My Sweetheart, The Drunk) - Jeff Buckley
Paranoid - Black Sabbath
In The Aeroplane Over The Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel
The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
The Bends - Radiohead
OK Computer - Radiohead
Kid A - Radiohead
Amnesiac - Radiohead
Hail To The Thief - Radiohead
Siamese Dream - The Smashing Pumpkins
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness - The Smashing Pumpkins
Adore - The Smashing Pumpkins
MACHINA/The Machines of God - The Smashing Pumpkins
Turn On The Bright Lights - Interpol
De-Loused In The Comatorium - The Mars Volta
Relationship of Command - At The Drive-In
Incesticide - Nirvana
In Utero - Nirvana
Dirt - Alice In Chains
Alice In Chains - Alice In Chains
Superunknown - Soundgarden
Aenima - Tool
Lateralus - Tool
Mer De Noms - A Perfect Circle
Queens of the Stone Age - Queens of the Stone Age
R (Restricted) - Queens of the Stone Age
Songs For The Deaf - Queens of the Stone Age
The Battle of Los Angeles - Rage Against The Machine
Pretty Hate Machine - Nine Inch Nails (Out of print, though)
The Downward Spiral - Nine Inch Nails
The Fragile - Nine Inch Nails
Metallica (The Black Album) - Metallica



Not everbody likes Radiohead. Plus Incesticide and In Utero are my least favourite Nirvana with Bleach and NEvermind being the favs. Same for SG Badmotorfinger is fav. Excluded Sonic Youth, Smiths, New Order, Joy Division, Morisey, Cure. Metallica, would go with Lightning, Puppets, or Kill. RATM the first one the one I like. So its all matter of taste.


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OrpheusDescending wrote:
zeb wrote:
Two essential double albums:

The White Album by the Beatles
Physical Grafitti by Led Zeppelin

j.


There ya go. :wink:


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LoathedVermin72 wrote:
I have no idea what you have, so I'm just gonna list a whole bunch I consider essential.

Led Zeppelin I
Led Zeppelin III
Led Zeppelin IV
Physical Graffiti - Led Zeppelin
Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
The Wall - Pink Floyd
Grace - Jeff Buckley
Sketches (For My Sweetheart, The Drunk) - Jeff Buckley
Paranoid - Black Sabbath
In The Aeroplane Over The Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel
The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
The Bends - Radiohead
OK Computer - Radiohead
Kid A - Radiohead
Amnesiac - Radiohead
Hail To The Thief - Radiohead
Siamese Dream - The Smashing Pumpkins
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness - The Smashing Pumpkins
Adore - The Smashing Pumpkins
MACHINA/The Machines of God - The Smashing Pumpkins
Turn On The Bright Lights - Interpol
De-Loused In The Comatorium - The Mars Volta
Relationship of Command - At The Drive-In
Incesticide - Nirvana
In Utero - Nirvana
Dirt - Alice In Chains
Alice In Chains - Alice In Chains
Superunknown - Soundgarden
Aenima - Tool
Lateralus - Tool
Mer De Noms - A Perfect Circle
Queens of the Stone Age - Queens of the Stone Age
R (Restricted) - Queens of the Stone Age
Songs For The Deaf - Queens of the Stone Age
The Battle of Los Angeles - Rage Against The Machine
Pretty Hate Machine - Nine Inch Nails (Out of print, though)
The Downward Spiral - Nine Inch Nails
The Fragile - Nine Inch Nails
Metallica (The Black Album) - Metallica



Not everbody likes Radiohead. Plus Incesticide and In Utero are my least favourite Nirvana with Bleach and NEvermind being the favs. Same for SG Badmotorfinger is fav. Excluded Sonic Youth, Smiths, New Order, Joy Division, Morisey, Cure. Metallica, would go with Lightning, Puppets, or Kill. RATM the first one the one I like. So its all matter of taste.


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